I think the best way to defeat cancer is by fasting or dieting. Cancer needs lots of energy and protein to maintain itself and to grow. If you starve yourself a bit, the cancer suffers much more than you do.
Vegetarians have a much lower rate of cancer, less than half the normal rate. The adult body is not growing, and needs very little protein. People who eat lots of meat, dairy or eggs have a huge excess of protein in their diet. Cancer would use that protein to grow. Without that protein, it cannot grow.
If you have cancer, rest and relax, don’t exercise or worry. If you exercise, your body needs much more energy, so you will eat more, and the cancer will take some of that energy. If you take away most of the protein and energy a cancer needs to grow, it can’t grow.
So, to cure and avoid cancer, fast for at least a week (just water). Then you can resume eating, but don’t eat high-protein foods such as meat, dairy or eggs, and don’t eat too much sugar, carbohydrates or fat. Take care with what you are eating, avoid eating too much, and especially avoid protein. Keep your energy intake as low as possible (low calories).
A friend of mine got rid of a large tumor in his neck like this. He fasted for a week, then followed a simple vegetarian diet over a period of a month or so. He ate mostly cabbage and pumpkin, gradually returning to a normal diet (or I suppose a better diet).
This method is simple, but I think it’s basically a sound and effective way to get better from cancer.
This is interesting. Could you please provide references to the medical journal articles on which you based this blog entry? Or perhaps you are an Oncologist who has not yet published?
Evo2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere
The Wikipedia page on Telomeres is worth reading, a cancer that can’t break the division limit will suddenly go away for no apparent reason.
A sample size of 1 doesn’t mean much in any case.
http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html
If the supply of blood to cancers can be reduced that can stop their growth. Among other things Chocolate inhibits the growth of blood vessels to cancer tissues. Apparently the majority of cancers don’t grow very big because they can’t convince the rest of the body to grow new blood vessels.
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What a load of codswallop. I’m embarrassed to see something so silly on planet.linux.org.au.
OMFG, you’re giving medical advice? Based on one anecdotal case? FFS what sort of an idiot are you?
Ever heard of science-based medicine where ideas like this are rigorously tested with large groups, randomly split into control and treatment groups followed up by proper statistical analysis?
Your advice is not more credible than homeopathy.
If I were you I’d retract your pseudoscientific ramblings about “the best way to defeat cancer” and leave the science to qualified medical personal and cancer researchers.
What the hell makes you so arrogant that you would write on your blog about “the best way to defeat cancer” and then attempt to back it up with “A friend of mine got rid of a large tumor in his neck like this”?
I call BS – perhaps you should get a doctorate in medicine, followed up with some core statistics knowledge, particularly correlation / causation and sample sizes before being qualified to have an opinion on this!
I decided to approve these three insulting comments by Clinton, JS and anon. This shows that there are several people who disagree with what I have written, and are not very polite about it.
Don’t throw your pearls before swine. Opinions are not theses. I am in support of your main argument and impressed by the effort you’ve apparently made to help solve the problem. Thank you.
Several people posted negative comments which were also sarcastic or abusive. I read them and will respond in person, but I have not approved them and they are not shown here. This is my blog, not a forum for people to abuse me in public!
(UPDATE: now that I have received some more civil comments, I have also approved the abusive comments which you can read below.)
If anyone wishes to post a polite response to what I wrote, please do so, and I will approve it for display.
My post was mostly based on my own reasoning. An unprejudiced person may search the web for ‘cancer + fasting’ or ‘cancer + vegetarian’ and find a large quantity of references, scholarly articles, papers, studies, general articles, and testimonials. I don’t know whether anyone has done a good controlled study on fasting / intelligent dieting for cancer remedy, with a large enough population. I have not found such a study. There have been several significant and supportive epidemiological studies.
I have had a look on the web, and listed some quotes (with URLs). The quotes are supportive of my main argument, and include several well-regarded research papers.
http://sam.ai.ki/cancer-quotes.html
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a respondent wrote: “Unless you are a health professional, you have no right to recommend any health protocol.”
I think that I have every right to recommend any legal course of action. Am I not allowed to say that a high-protein, high-calorie diet promotes the growth of cancer? I am entitled to speak, and this fact has been established.
It has been known from before the dawn of western medicine that fasting and good diet can cure a wide variety of diseases.
I suppose that anyone who has a serious disease such as cancer will not rely on me as their sole authority. I suppose they will consult several doctors and other experts. They may wish to freely consult their own intelligence – even if they are not a health professional.
It was “known” before the dawn of western medicine that evil spirits caused disease, that sticking pins in random parts of the body would heal other parts, and that cannibalism cured all ills.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
The scientific method is required for proper research, along with studies that involve statistically significant numbers of patients (IE significantly more than 1).
I’m not going to wait for scientists to prove something before I will accept that it might be correct. I will use my own reasoning, reading and experience to make up my mind.
If someone waited for the world’s scientists to come to agreement, he might have died from lung cancer and smoking before they had proved that it is harmful.
That said, there is plenty of proof that fasting has many specific health benefits:
Wikipedia: Fasting: Health effects
Health Benefits to Fasting (citations not included)
Also, Einstein came up with the theories of relativity without using the scientific method at all. He used his reasoning.
He was later shown by application of the scientific method to be correct, or at least to have found a more accurate model of reality than what previously known.
Without wishing to compare my intelligence to Einstein’s, I can use my reasoning, reading and experience to come up with a theory that fasting will help to cure cancer. If someone has the resources to study this using the scientific method, or using quality epidemiological work, they may be able to determine conclusively whether I am right or wrong. It’s not like I’m the first intelligent person to have claimed this.
Being intelligent does not imply being able to give useful advice on a random topic. There are lots of examples of intelligent and well educated people giving rather stupid advice on topics that are outside their area of expertise (a current example is geologists who claim to be experts on climate change). There are also plenty of intelligent but ill-educated people who have wacky ideas.
The people who developed practices such as acupuncture, homeopathy, and cannibalism to cure medical problems weren’t necessarily stupid. In fact there is a strong correlation between parts of the world that lacked adequate sources of protein and places where cannibalism were widely practiced.
Prayer even works to cure some disease – in the form of the placebo effect!
But you really don’t want to rely on prayer and fasting to cure anything remotely serious, the result can be fatal. Rely on prayer and fasting to cure a common cold, it will probably be cured in a week. :-#
The main problem is that what you are presenting is a hypothesis not a theory. These are two very different things. Additionally your hypothesis is primarily supported only by anecdotes, anything that you have presented that does not fall into this category are cherry picked results without references to peer reviewed journal articles.
If this type of thing really is of interest to you I suggest you checkout the skeptics guide to the universe podcast. http://www.theskepticsguide.org/
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/
Cheers,
Evo2.
I’m not bothered if rude people disagree with me. I’ve found that rudeness and stupidity most often go hand in hand. Russell wasn’t rude, so I’m interested to read what he has to say. Everyone else is wasting their keystrokes as far as I’m concerned.
Perhaps you’ve seen these videos of a lady doing 3 consecutive 40 day fasts on youtube (spaced by 1 week with food). If she lost that much weight, I think any tumors she might have had would have lost a lot of weight also.
She certainly did lose a lot of weight, including I guess most of the protein in her body, and I don’t see why any cancers would be excluded from the weight loss. I suggest that cancers might be more vulnerable than normal body protein, and would be entirely consumed during the fasting. They certainly wouldn’t continue to grow. How can a person die of cancer if the cancer cannot grow?
day 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgNh9mGb2K4
day 40: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAs74gQa2c
day 80: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-09Z_9ZpZyk
day 120: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdqKS-JQ1i0
1 month later: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ixZICyJJck
She’s looking fine, “I have stabalized at about a normal 120 pounds and have suffered no ill effect due to the fasting. Everything checks out medically, and I am healthier now than when I began the fasts.”
6 months later: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFbvOAbhcT8
“I am pregnant now, in good health, and my weight fluctuates between 115 – 125 lbs.”
From a comment on the last video:
“There is one thing I would like to point out to everyone. Look at how healthy and rejuvinated Aaron is. She looks like she is 22 and does not look like she has had any children. Before the fasts she looked like she was pushing 50. You look like one of the Robert Palmer girls in “Addicted to Love”. I could only hope to find a girl someday with that brand of sheer will.”
If fasting like that, or even less extremely, did not cure most any kind of cancer, I would be very surprised indeed. If you have cancer, please try it and see.
Also, if you have cancer from smoking too much, I suggest don’t try to quit smoking until you cure the cancer, because quitting may likely cause extra stress, loss of sleep, etc. which would hinder recovery from the cancer.
A somewhat relevant news headline: “British study finds two-month extreme diet can cure type 2 diabetes and overturns assumptions about ‘lifelong’ condition” http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jun/24/low-calorie-diet-hope-cure-diabetes
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I agree fasting could cure cancer, I have been trying to find info on jewish camp prisoners and japanese prisoners of war, that could prove or disprove your auguments, as for only listening to medical experts on cancer treatments, I disagree their success rates are extremely dismal.